'Immoral and possibly illegal' methods at Guantanamo
Starmail - 14. Feb, 18:40
Folter- Torture
14
Feb
2005
The Guantanamo Guidebook: U.K. to Air Show on Torture Techniques
by THOMAS WAGNER, AP ONLINE
LONDON (AP) - Two people vomited, two wet their pants, another suffered signs of hypothermia - all for the cameras - after volunteering to spend 48 hours locked up in cages and subjected to sexual humiliation, forced nudity and sleep deprivation allegedly like prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba. (AP/File)
A British television station plans to air "The Guantanamo Guidebook,'' a program that recreates some alleged techniques used at the U.S. prison camp for terrorist suspects.
Channel 4 says it wants to make the public aware of such abuses, but a human rights group said Wednesday the program violates U.N. conventions banning torture and shouldn't be shown.
"Your program may have undesirable effects of acclimatizing the audience to the use of torture. The real issue is: how do we make an end to impunity for torturers,'' said Brita Sydhoff of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims in Denmark. The group represents 200 rehabilitation centers for torture victims.
The show's producers say they have recreated some of the milder forms of alleged abuse used at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The methods used on seven volunteers included religious and sexual humiliation, forced nudity, sleep deprivation and extreme temperatures, Tim Carter, the show's producer and director, said Wednesday.
The volunteers were locked in a warehouse with cages, interrogation rooms and surveillance equipment for 48 hours. In the end, after getting sick or suffering symptoms of hypothermia, three of the seven volunteers quit before the 48 hours was over, Carter said.
"We made the program to show viewers how devastating even the milder techniques such as sleep deprivation and playing on personal phobias can be,'' said Carter, who made the program for the Twenty Twenty Television production company in London.
The Bush administration has denied using torture at the Guantanamo prison, where many of the 545 detainees are held without charge. However, some detainees have said they were wrongly imprisoned and allege mistreatment, including beatings, forced nudity and sexual humiliation.
Tom Wilner, a lawyer for 11 Kuwaiti prisoners, recently told The Associated Press that most of his clients falsely confessed to belonging to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network as a way to stop alleged abuse.
Carter said many forms of purported abuse at Guantanamo have been publicly described by alleged victims, their lawyers and in memos and other documents released under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
A broadcast date for "The Guantanamo Guidebook'' has not been announced, but Yad Luthra, a spokesman for Channel 4 in London, said it is one of four programs dealing with torture planned for a one-week period in the next month.
Carter said TV stations in other countries have expressed interest in the show, but none has bought the rights.
The other programs include a documentary by Clive Stafford Smith, the first British lawyer allowed into Guantanamo, that explores the issue of whether torture ever works when used on alleged terrorism suspects.
Another by former BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan is about how the United States and other nations allegedly take terrorist suspects outside the country to torture them.
Gilligan resigned from the British Broadcasting Corp. after a senior judge, Lord Hutton, criticized his story in 2003 that alleged Prime Minister Tony Blair's office had "sexed up'' an intelligence dossier about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq war.
The fourth Channel 4 documentary is about alleged torture in U.S. prisons.
02/09/05 16:28 EST
Source: http://news.channels.aolsvc.aol.ca/news/article.adp?id=20050209200309990001
Informant: Charles Bremer
LONDON (AP) - Two people vomited, two wet their pants, another suffered signs of hypothermia - all for the cameras - after volunteering to spend 48 hours locked up in cages and subjected to sexual humiliation, forced nudity and sleep deprivation allegedly like prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba. (AP/File)
A British television station plans to air "The Guantanamo Guidebook,'' a program that recreates some alleged techniques used at the U.S. prison camp for terrorist suspects.
Channel 4 says it wants to make the public aware of such abuses, but a human rights group said Wednesday the program violates U.N. conventions banning torture and shouldn't be shown.
"Your program may have undesirable effects of acclimatizing the audience to the use of torture. The real issue is: how do we make an end to impunity for torturers,'' said Brita Sydhoff of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims in Denmark. The group represents 200 rehabilitation centers for torture victims.
The show's producers say they have recreated some of the milder forms of alleged abuse used at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The methods used on seven volunteers included religious and sexual humiliation, forced nudity, sleep deprivation and extreme temperatures, Tim Carter, the show's producer and director, said Wednesday.
The volunteers were locked in a warehouse with cages, interrogation rooms and surveillance equipment for 48 hours. In the end, after getting sick or suffering symptoms of hypothermia, three of the seven volunteers quit before the 48 hours was over, Carter said.
"We made the program to show viewers how devastating even the milder techniques such as sleep deprivation and playing on personal phobias can be,'' said Carter, who made the program for the Twenty Twenty Television production company in London.
The Bush administration has denied using torture at the Guantanamo prison, where many of the 545 detainees are held without charge. However, some detainees have said they were wrongly imprisoned and allege mistreatment, including beatings, forced nudity and sexual humiliation.
Tom Wilner, a lawyer for 11 Kuwaiti prisoners, recently told The Associated Press that most of his clients falsely confessed to belonging to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network as a way to stop alleged abuse.
Carter said many forms of purported abuse at Guantanamo have been publicly described by alleged victims, their lawyers and in memos and other documents released under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
A broadcast date for "The Guantanamo Guidebook'' has not been announced, but Yad Luthra, a spokesman for Channel 4 in London, said it is one of four programs dealing with torture planned for a one-week period in the next month.
Carter said TV stations in other countries have expressed interest in the show, but none has bought the rights.
The other programs include a documentary by Clive Stafford Smith, the first British lawyer allowed into Guantanamo, that explores the issue of whether torture ever works when used on alleged terrorism suspects.
Another by former BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan is about how the United States and other nations allegedly take terrorist suspects outside the country to torture them.
Gilligan resigned from the British Broadcasting Corp. after a senior judge, Lord Hutton, criticized his story in 2003 that alleged Prime Minister Tony Blair's office had "sexed up'' an intelligence dossier about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq war.
The fourth Channel 4 documentary is about alleged torture in U.S. prisons.
02/09/05 16:28 EST
Source: http://news.channels.aolsvc.aol.ca/news/article.adp?id=20050209200309990001
Informant: Charles Bremer
Starmail - 14. Feb, 18:00
13
Feb
2005
Mamdouh Habib: U.S. Tortured Australian Citizen in Four Countries
Bush-Gonzales-Chertoff Legacy: U.S. Tortured Australian Citizen in Four Countries
After being arrested in Pakistan in the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, he was held as a terror suspect by the Americans for 40 months. Back home now, Mr. Habib alleges that at every step of his detention - from Pakistan, to Egypt, to Afghanistan, to Guantánamo - he endured physical and psychological abuse.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2826
Freed Aussie terror suspect alleges being tortured by US forces :
Australian former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib said yesterday that he was beaten and subjected to electric shock torture in Pakistan and Egypt and degraded by US forces in Cuba during his almost three years in detention.
http://tinyurl.com/6242f
Australia concedes ex-Guantanamo detainee was tortured in Egypt:
The Australian government has conceded allegations by former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib that he was tortured in Egypt may be true.
http://tinyurl.com/463vh
This is a must watch interview:
Under suspicion:
60 Minutes Australia Interviews Habib Mamdouh: After more than three years in prison, he tells his story of terrorism and torture. Windows Media. Video may take a moment to load.
http://tinyurl.com/4epqo
Transcript: Under suspicion:
Transcript Of 60 Minutes interview with Mamdouh Habib
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_02_13/story_1293.asp
http://tinyurl.com/6ee9z
From Information Clearing House
After being arrested in Pakistan in the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, he was held as a terror suspect by the Americans for 40 months. Back home now, Mr. Habib alleges that at every step of his detention - from Pakistan, to Egypt, to Afghanistan, to Guantánamo - he endured physical and psychological abuse.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2826
Freed Aussie terror suspect alleges being tortured by US forces :
Australian former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib said yesterday that he was beaten and subjected to electric shock torture in Pakistan and Egypt and degraded by US forces in Cuba during his almost three years in detention.
http://tinyurl.com/6242f
Australia concedes ex-Guantanamo detainee was tortured in Egypt:
The Australian government has conceded allegations by former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib that he was tortured in Egypt may be true.
http://tinyurl.com/463vh
This is a must watch interview:
Under suspicion:
60 Minutes Australia Interviews Habib Mamdouh: After more than three years in prison, he tells his story of terrorism and torture. Windows Media. Video may take a moment to load.
http://tinyurl.com/4epqo
Transcript: Under suspicion:
Transcript Of 60 Minutes interview with Mamdouh Habib
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_02_13/story_1293.asp
http://tinyurl.com/6ee9z
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 13. Feb, 16:34
Torture, American Style
"Terrorism suspects in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East have often been abducted by hooded or masked American agents, then forced onto a Gulfstream V jet, like the one described by Arar. ... Upon arriving in foreign countries, rendered suspects often vanish. Detainees are not provided with lawyers, and many families are not informed of their whereabouts."
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2823
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2823
Starmail - 13. Feb, 16:32
12
Feb
2005
Pentagon Confirms Use of Guantanamo Sex Tactics
Starmail - 12. Feb, 18:29
U.N. Human Rights Experts: 'U.S. Treatment of Detainees Inhuman and Degrading'
http://tinyurl.com/5rw58
18-year-old Canadian Detainee Tortured At Guantanamo:
Attorneys representing an 18-year-old Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay — accused of killing an American soldier — claimed Wednesday he was tortured by U.S. interrogators
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=D20BFA0E-CFD1-44B5-9D0A-C09EE32486BB
http://tinyurl.com/666z9
Torture horror of Bahraini detainee :
LAWYERS for a Bahraini prisoner at Guantanamo Bay claim he was tortured by US soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan, shortly after being captured in December 2001.The allegations include claims that he was made to walk barefoot over broken glass and had his head pushed into the glass before being interrogated.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=103999&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=27327
http://tinyurl.com/6dj34
Soldier blames 'infected' culture for Iraq abuse:
An Army corporal charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners with two other British soldiers has claimed it would have been "pointless" to report the alleged attacks.
http://tinyurl.com/3ld35
UK Soldier 'Blew His Top' at Iraq Abuse, Court Told:
A British army corporal accused of mistreating prisoners in Iraq told a court on Thursday he "blew his top" when he saw detainees forced to simulate oral sex and stopped the incident immediately.
http://tinyurl.com/6h7fx
From Information Cleraring House
18-year-old Canadian Detainee Tortured At Guantanamo:
Attorneys representing an 18-year-old Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay — accused of killing an American soldier — claimed Wednesday he was tortured by U.S. interrogators
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=D20BFA0E-CFD1-44B5-9D0A-C09EE32486BB
http://tinyurl.com/666z9
Torture horror of Bahraini detainee :
LAWYERS for a Bahraini prisoner at Guantanamo Bay claim he was tortured by US soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan, shortly after being captured in December 2001.The allegations include claims that he was made to walk barefoot over broken glass and had his head pushed into the glass before being interrogated.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=103999&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=27327
http://tinyurl.com/6dj34
Soldier blames 'infected' culture for Iraq abuse:
An Army corporal charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners with two other British soldiers has claimed it would have been "pointless" to report the alleged attacks.
http://tinyurl.com/3ld35
UK Soldier 'Blew His Top' at Iraq Abuse, Court Told:
A British army corporal accused of mistreating prisoners in Iraq told a court on Thursday he "blew his top" when he saw detainees forced to simulate oral sex and stopped the incident immediately.
http://tinyurl.com/6h7fx
From Information Cleraring House
Starmail - 12. Feb, 00:11
11
Feb
2005
CIA prisoners 'tortured' in Arab jails
Starmail - 11. Feb, 23:24
How the CIA shuttle prisoners around
Starmail - 11. Feb, 22:33
Britain accused over CIA's secret torture flights
UK airports are believed to be operational bases for two executive jets used by the CIA to carry out 'renditions' of terror suspects.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=609538
From Information Clearing House
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=609538
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 11. Feb, 21:54
